The Marquis' Wife
Solving Xiaowen's problems

The next day, Lu Xiang went to visit his teacher's house to tell him about his discussion together with Prefect Zhong. Zhao Fan nodded in satisfaction then smiled in admiration when he heard the idea Adelia conveyed.

"Your wife has a lot of Lu Xiang's ideas. That's a pretty good idea, your reputation and Adelia's gonna blow if the project is realized".

"This is also thanks to your teacher's teaching. You taught me to think flexibly and use what's around me to be my advantage".

"Hahaha, you're really good at making me happy".

Zhao Fan also gave another idea that Lu Xiang might be able to do in the project and then told Lu Xiang to complete the academy's graduation procedure.

"Don't forget to attend the graduation ceremony that I and the other teachers made for you in three days. Take Adelia with you too".

Zhao Fan makes a graduation ceremony for students who successfully pass the fu-shih exam every year because for those who want to continue their school then their academy can no longer educate them and must go to the city of Fucheng for higher knowledge.

Zhao Academy was one of the best academies even in Qincheng city itself because Zhao Fan one of the Juren scholars and Zhao academy had many Fu scholars who became teachers, as well as many Fu scholars, not so different from the academy in Qincheng city, so if you want to continue school then the only option is the academy in Fucheng.

"Good teacher. Your students won't forget".

"Five more days will also be a gathering of scholars who will continue their studies to Fucheng in the city of Qincheng. Do you want to come along?".

Lu Xiang's eyebrows shot up but his eyes grew slightly cold from the thought of his uncle Lu Huanran and what he did to him.

Zhao Fan also recalled about Uncle Lu Xiang. "I've been looking into the mastermind behind the trap that happened to you in Fucheng. Lu Huanran met several times with a Hsien scholar who also took the exam in Fucheng and gave a lot of money, although I don't know what the money is for but I'm sure it's not far from what happened to you".

Lu Xiang clenched his hand firmly but his expression did not change just his eyes only turned increasingly cold. Many events that happened to him made him increasingly able to hide the feelings he felt without showing them on the face.

Zhao Fan let out a heavy sigh. "Do you want revenge".

Lu Xiang raised his face and smiled weakly then shook his head. "It's not yet teacher time. I was worried that Lu Huanran would hurt Adelia if she cornered him. You know the teacher that even rabbits can bite if they feel danger, I don't want to regret that something bad happened to Adelia just because of the current grudge"

Zhao Fan nodded in agreement. Men will come to avenge him in the next 10 years, this is not the right time for that.

"It's good that you understand". He was worried that the blind disciple would be vengeful and became regretful for not thinking well of the repercussions if he were to avenge himself without doing anything to deal with the consequences but he did not seem to have to worry about it, his students are mature and know what is best for him.

"I'm not going to join uncle's party because I have so much to do to move to Fucheng with my family".

"Alright, I'll send you the news that you're not coming".

Lu Xiang came home after a short conversation with his teacher while drinking wine enjoying the ultimate togetherness with his teacher or student.

He was stunned to see Li Jin and his wife who had just arrived home and remembered that Adelia was working with Li Jin's wife Xiaowen.

Xiaowen discussed with her husband before she told him about her cooperation with Adelia. She was very fortunate that her husband allowed her to hide 10% of the profits from her mother-in-law.

Although he was reluctant about the decision because the second brother-in-law would definitely suppress him and would rule in the De Xiang store just because of seniority, he said, especially if Li Yueyin helped the second brother-in-law then he would definitely lose but inevitably he had to accept the decision because he was only a daughter-in-law who had to obey the orders of the mother-in-law.

Xiaowen told Adelia after Li Jin went to the study room to discuss studying and admission procedures to the Fucheng academy.

Adelia tapped her finger thinking deeply. "What if Uncle Shi Hanxi stays I hire in the cake shop. You and your brother-in-law and sister-in-law make and become employees only. Of course the finances let Uncle Shi do it, I think it can help so that you can get 10% profit and 20% profit surely your brother-in-law will hand it to the mother-in-law right?".

Xiaowen was stunned and smiled brightly. "Yes Adelia. You can do that because this is your shop, after all uncle Shi Hanxi can definitely cope with my brother-in-law and Li Yueyin if they want to take over the financial part".

Adelia also smiled as she was not involved in the internal matters of the Li family. It would be very awkward if the profits that he could reduce because there were no eyes and ears for him in the Cheng city cake shop.

"alright. Wait a minute, I'll make a separate contract for you and your mother-in-law". Adelia went to her room to write two contracts containing 30% profit sharing and 20% for each contract then returned to the living room and placed them before Xiaowen.

"Read the points I wrote, if there's no problem you can sign under this contract and this is specifically for you to give to your mother-in-law". Adelia shows which contracts are confidential and which contracts can be given to Li's mother.

Xiaowen herself was so adept at reading, she had to wait for her husband before signing the contract.

"I'm not very good at reading Adelia" muttered Xiaowen looking embarrassed.

"It's okay. You can wait for your husband, but you have to start studying because business needs a lot of letters to sign. If this business you can develop well maybe a brother or a friend you trust can open a branch in another small town, it will be very helpful to the De Xiang cake shop business".

Xiaowen was stunned by the advice Adelia gave and thought that it made sense. The words of his friend seemed to open his narrow mind because he did not have much experience and knew how valuable reading and writing in a business venture.

Li Jin who finished discussing with Lu Xiang returned to the living room and read out the points on the contract before Xiaowen signed his name on the contract.

Adelia stood up and extended her hand, the two shaking hands happily a sign that the cooperation between Adelia and Xiaowen had started to run that very second.

Adelia introduces Xiaowen to Shi Hanxi's uncle and tells her that her friend will be making cakes and running De Xiang's cake shop along with Si Hanxi's uncle. He had already said before after knowing that Lu Xiang passed the test that he would move out and find a new partner to manage the cake shop and would dismiss Uncle Shi if his partner only wanted to manage the cake shop itself that.

The stop was not without compensation, he would give a huge bonus money in gratitude for Shi Hanxi's uncle who had already done his job well during his work for him. But now that Xiaowen agreed if uncle Shi would continue the job as manager then Adelia breathed a sigh of relief.

After thinking for a moment, he decided to give 5% of the cake shop profit in addition to the salary to Uncle Shi to make the almost middle-aged man to remain loyal to him.

"Really madam? You're giving me a 5% commission for me?" Uncle Shi asked in disbelief. The experience of working in the Xiefu family was enough to allow her to work as a manager in other large stores so she did not have any concerns about the work stop when Adelia moved to Fucheng but she did not expect that her employer would give him a special commission.

"Yes uncle. If the cake business in Cheng city develops then you will get more commission as a sign of your hard work in managing the De Xiang cake shop".

"Thank you, lady Lu".

Adelia smiled and made a special contract for Shi Hanxi.